![]() The market continues to be dominated by sales of official Xbox and PlayStation controllers. This is a drop of 9% month-on-month and down 7.5% year-on-year. ![]() Over in the land of accessories and peripherals, 669,029 add-on products were sold in the UK during October, GfK figures show. ![]() Nintendo Switch has now overtaken Xbox One in terms of all-time console sales in the UK, and is closing in on PlayStation 3.įor the year-to-date, there is just 40,000 console sales separating Xbox Series X and S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 5. Nintendo Switch is still in third position, although sales did rise slightly in October, up 5% month-on-month. Microsoft sold roughly the same number of Xbox Series consoles in October as it did in September. Sony's console very (very) narrowly remained the No.1 platform, with sales of the Xbox Series X and S family of consoles just behind it. This was mainly due to a marginal drop in sales for the PS5, with sales down 6% compared with September. Just under 175,000 units were sold last month (GfK panel data), which is a drop of 1%. PS5 narrowly holds off Xbox Series X and SĬonsole hardware sales dipped very slightly in the UK in October compared with the month before, according to the latest GfK figures. Also new and from Japan is Dragon Ball: The Breakers, which makes No.19. The game's launch isn't as strong as what its predecessor managed back in 2017, although as the only major Mario game to launch this Christmas, we should expect the title to stick around over the next month.Įlsewhere, PGA Tour 2K23 debuts at No.7, Persona 5 Royal comes in at No.14, and Bayonetta 3 debuts at No.15. Next on the new release charts is Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope at No.5. The title's sales after two weeks are very slightly ahead of what last year's Guardians of the Galaxy managed over the same period. Modern Warfare 2's opening week sales are almost 92% higher than what Vanguard managed.ĥ7% of sales came on PlayStation formats (42% on PS5), with nearly 33% on the Xbox platforms and nearly 11% on PC.Īlso helping the market to grow was FIFA 23, which enjoyed a better October than FIFA 22 managed last year, with sales up nearly 6%.Īlso new this month is Gotham Knights, which manages No.3 in the charts. The Activision Blizzard shooter was an October release this year, whereas last year's title, Call of Duty: Vanguard, launched in November.Įven so, it was a significantly improved performance for the franchise. The success is all down to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. However, just short of 1.1m games were sold via physical retailers, which is a drop of 14% over October 2021. 2.83m games were sold in the UK last month, up 11.2% over the year before.Īccording to GSD data, 1.75 million of those games were sold via digital download stores, which is a rise of nearly 36% year-on-year.
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